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MEDICINE REMINDER SYSTEM USING

ARDUINO
Pallavi Somnath Gaikwad1, Tanvi Santosh Bharade2, Vikas Solanke3

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Student, Department of Computer Engineering, M. M. Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Student, Department of Computer Engineering, M. M. Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
3
Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, M. M. Polytechnic, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

ABSTRACT
We always want to stay them healthy and fit. But what will happen if they get ill and forget to take medicine on time.
We would be worried, At hospitals, there are many patients and it is difficult to remind every patient to take
medicine on time. The traditional ways require human efforts to remind them to take medicines on time. The digital
era doesn’t follow that and we can use machines to do that. The application of Smart Medicine Reminder System is
very wide and can be used by patients at home, doctors at hospitals, and at many other places. When it comes to
reminding, there can be many ways to remind it

Keyword : - Medicine alarm System, Notification sound, Sensing capability, Arduino, Patient Health, Medicine

1. INTRODUCTION

The In recent times, the rate of consumption of medicines has highly increased due to the wide spreading of
different diseases and illnesses across the globe. While some diseases are temporary, many diseases have a toll on
human health for a lifetime. In the pursuit of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, we often find ourselves to be sick. This
could be threatening if not properly treated. A visit to the doctor and consumption of the medical prescription
becomes a necessity. Nevertheless failing to consume the medicine regularly could cause a lot of problems. Keeping
in mind this problem, the idea of creating a smart device that alerts the patient to take medicines right on time, so
that they would recover soon and stay healthy without any issues in the body.

2. SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS

2.1 Arduino Nano

The Arduino Nano is Arduino's classic breadboard friendly designed board with the smallest dimensions. The
Arduino Nano comes with pin headers that allow for an easy attachment onto a breadboard and features a Mini-USB
connector.

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Fig -1: Arduino Nano

2.2 DS3231 RTC Module -1

RTC means Real Time Clock. RTC modules are simply TIME and DATE remembering systems which have battery
setup which in the absence of external power keeps the module running. This keeps the TIME and DATE up to date.
So we can have accurate TIME and DATE from RTC module whenever we want.

Fig -2: DS3231 RTC Module

2.3 LCD
In LCD 16×2, the term LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display that uses a plane panel display technology, used in
screens of computer monitors & TVs, smartphones, tablets, mobile devices, etc. Both the displays like LCD & CRTs
look the same but their operation is different. Instead of electrons diffraction at a glass display, a liquid crystal
display has a backlight that provides light to each pixel that is arranged in a rectangular network.

Fig -3: LCD

2.4 Push-Button
The "push-button" has been utilized in calculators, push-button telephones, kitchen appliances, and various other
mechanical and electronic devices, home and commercial.
In industrial and commercial applications, push buttons can be connected together by a mechanical linkage so that
the act of pushing one button causes the other button to be released. In this way, a stop button can "force" a start
button to be released. This method of linkage is used in simple manual operations in which the machine or process
has no electrical circuits for control.

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Fig - 4: Push button

2.5 Potentiometer
Potentiometers also known as POT, are nothing but variable resistors. They can provide a variable resistance by
simply varying the knob on top of its head. It can be classified based on two main parameters. One is
their Resistance (R-ohms) itself and the other is its Power (P-Watts) rating.

Fig – 5 : Potentiometer

2.6 Resistor
A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element.
In electronic circuits, resistors are used to reduce current flow, adjust signal levels, to divide voltages, bias active
elements, and terminate transmission lines, among other uses. High-power resistors that can dissipate many watts of
electrical power as heat may be used as part of motor controls, in power distribution systems, or as test loads
for generators. Fixed resistors have resistances that only change slightly with temperature, time or operating voltage.
Variable resistors can be used to adjust circuit elements (such as a volume control or a lamp dimmer), or as sensing
devices for heat, light, humidity, force, or chemical activity.

Fig – 6 :Resistor

3.METHODOLOGY
Method We can combine ways depending upon the need. To keep things simple here we made a Medicine
Reminder using Arduino which reminds us to take medicines 1 or 2 or 3 times a day. The time slot can be selected
using push buttons. Also, it shows the current Date and Time.

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Fig – 7: Block Diagram

3.1 Explanation of Project :

1) Arduino NANO: We are using Arduino NANO because it use 8 bit microcontroller ATmega328P and it has
32KB flash memory. These features are beneficial in our project and that’s why we used Arduino NANO. Arduino
NANO board is connected with all other modules also it controls all other modules & made the interfacing easier. It
also has internal EEPROM which stores real time data in it. Our project is based on embedded system we are using
Arduino Uno for interfacing all things In that Arduino is an open-source which is easy-to-use hardware and
connected software. So Arduino is path between hardware and software. Arduino boards read inputs from a press a
button- and turn it into an output, turning on an LED and buzzer, you can tell your board what to do by sending a set
of instructions to the microcontroller of Arduino. To do so you use the Arduino programming language , and the
Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing. The programming platform is Arduino IDE and programming
language is standard C. we made program for all different module that we are using in our project. Like RTC
module, LCD module 16*2 so firstly we have to add library in Arduino IDE software and after that we made
programming.

2)LCD interfacing: We used 16*2 LCD module in our project which is connected to Arduino NANO through a
LCD interface IC or directly to its address and data bus and few control pins. LCD shows the current time and date
which RTC sends the data to LCD module.

3)RTC module: We used Tiny RTC I2C module which uses I2C protocol and it is useful in our project. RTC
module has internal CMOS cell so it does not needs external power supply to update time and date.

4)Buzzer: Buzzer will ring at proper time when pills have to be taken.

5)LED: We have 7 boxes having an LED in each box which blinks to show us the specific box from which the pills
needs to be taken at given time.

6)Pushbuttons: We used 3 push buttons from which first one is used for setting medicine, second one is used for
increment and third one is used for next. First button takes us to the menu of setting medicine, second button is used
to increment the number of hour and minute which we needs to set and third button takes us forward from hour to
minute and from minute to the next time.

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4.WORK FLOW

5.RESULT

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6. CONCLUSIONS
The goal of our project is to provide healthy and tension free life to those users who are taking regularly pills and to
provide this product at affordable cost also. Our project’s objective is to help elderly people. We conclude the results
that our project is useful for those elderly people who take pills regularly and whose course of prescription is very
long and difficult to remember. This device will notify them at the right time, the right medicine to be taken. This in
turn helps them to stay fit and healthy without any issues.

7. REFERENCES

[1] https://www.maxiaids.com/t/pill-boxes
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329299641_Smart_drugsImproving_Healthcare_using_Smart
_Pill_Box_for_Medicine_Reminder_and_Monitoring_System
[3] www.google.com
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2314728818300230
[5] www.youtube.com
[6] https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/thestevenbell/arduino-alarm-system-db084a

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